I've been waiting a long time to get this
step complete. This is the fairing I've made
to seal off this entire area and gain at
least 32 mph in cruise!

My neighbor Len is
almost done building a Velocity and is a
master with fiberglass. Len showed me today
how to properly build a fiberglass fairing.

A month or two ago, I taped off this
entire and then shaped Bondo to get the
contours I wanted.

I really wish I could have taken some photos
of the steps along the way, but there was
just no time to be messing around with a
camera.

But, we laid up three layers of cloth. The
prep was time consuming as we had to cut the
cloth into strips and then soak it with
resin. We did this in Len's hangar and then
carried the pieces to my hangar to apply.

What you are seeing in the photos is not the
fiberglass but the peel-ply laid over the
fiberglass. The peel ply gives the outside
surface of the fairing a very nice smooth
finish that requires very little surface
prep for finishing and painting.

It's only 64 degrees in my hangar today so I
have heat lamps on the fairing. Tomorrow
evening I will peel off the peel ply, and
then in a few days after the resin is fully
cured I will remove the fairing and trim the
edges.

The hardest part is waiting a few days to
see the finished product! So far I think it
looks great and I'm very excited to see it
after it's all trimmed and fit.